I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: COOPERATION, CULTURES, SOCIETIES AND AFRICAN PROCESSES OF DIGITALISATION SOUTH OF THE SAHARA.
(HYBRYD FORMAT)
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17 and 18 October 2024
Abstracts submission deadline: 23 September 2024
Congress in numbers
More than 60 speakers and more than 40 presentations from 14 different nationalities at the Congress
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NACIONALIDADES
63
SPEAKERS
43
PRESENTATIONS
TOP Presentations
Presentations more commented of Congress
Digitalización del racismo y sexismo: impactos de la ciberviolencia en mujeres jóvenes de la diáspora africana en España15
Tecnologías digitales, racismo y sexismo: experiencia de mujeres negras11
El género y la descolonización en las políticas y agendas de cooperación internacional para el desarrollo10
Colonialismo energético: los límites de la digitalización10
Los espacios digitales en la construcción de relaciones e identidad LGTBI en África Subsahariana10
The Arts of Queerness: Reimagining Activism, Cultural Belonging, and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Kenya9
Grupos de ayuda digital: una propuesta de atención y prevención de violencias contra las mujeres en África Subsahariana8
Employment Vulnerability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Digital Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Women’s Economic Empowerment7
Dinero móvil y empoderamiento femenino: luces y sombras en los casos de Tanzania y Guinea-Bisáu7
Determinantes microestructurales de la integración migrante en Chile. Oportunidades y desafíos en dicho territorio. Investigación en desarrollo.6
Introduction
The Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) holds this first international Congress in the city of Granada (Spain), and offers a forum for debate on the results of research on digitisation and cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Social Sciences and Humanities.
The theme of this first international edition of the Congress is: “Social Sciences and Digital Humanities: Cooperation, Cultures, Societies and African Processes of Digitisation South of the Sahara”, with the aim of contributing to cooperation with Africa in terms of respect for the cultures, knowledge and decisions of African peoples.
The inspiration for this first international conference comes from the R&D&I project “Digital transition, social cohesion and gender equality: mobile banking and women’s digital empowerment in Africa” (DIGITALFEM), reference: TED2021-130586B-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”. Also the recent boost to the Unit of Excellence in Women’s and Gender Studies (University Institute for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Granada).
The Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) and the research group AFRICAInEs: Research and Studies Applied to Development (SEJ-491) of the University of Granada celebrate the first hybrid international Congress with online panels and in the city of Granada (Spain) , and offers a forum for debate on digitalization and cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Please come and join us in Granada for the Conference on the website: https://digitaldiverse.es/
SYNOPSIS
Since the end of the 20th century and clearly so far in the 21st century, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have not only expanded exponentially in the world but also impacted numerous spheres of people’s lives. The African continent is experiencing a major digital acceleration at many levels, interconnecting local and global structures, processes and actors/actors, thus identifying multiple challenges and opportunities for Africa’s digital and socio-economic transformation. Some of these opportunities and challenges would be linked to the very development and socio-cultural compatibility for socio-economic growth in this region of the world, as the access of African populations to digital services (financial, business and marketing, media and resources) is not necessarily to their benefit, even if they offer potentially viable, effective and relevant alternatives for self-employment, among others. European and Spanish governmental economic and cooperation strategies (EU-African Union 2020 Summit, EU-Africa 2020 Business Forum, Agenda España Digital 2025, Agenda 2030, etc.) are in tune with the options offered by technological digitalisation in terms of access to information, contacts, innovation and opportunities in order to generate greater equality and development.
This Congress aims at joint, inter and multidisciplinary reflection, through the exhibition and discussion of quality research related to the phenomenon of digital transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, from the Social Sciences and Humanities, with the challenges it poses for today’s global digital society, through thematic symposia on digitisation and empowerment, for example, in the cases of Guinea Bissau and Tanzania; the social and gender digital divide; socio-cultural compatibility and digitisation processes; digitisation and cooperation as avenues for socio-economic growth and development; inequalities and public policies for digitisation in African countries; digitisation processes in relation to business and trade activities.
Participation in the symposia will be virtual and recorded with translation into Spanish, English or Portuguese.
WHO IS ORGANISING IT?
It is organized by the Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) and the research group AFRICAInEs: studies and research applied to development (SEJ 491)
Organised by:
- Director: Roser Manzanera Ruiz (University of Granada)
Scientific Committee:
- Dr. Fernando Carrión, FLACSO (Ecuador)
- Dr. Clara Carvalho. ISCTE, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
- Dr. Maria Carmen Cuellar Padilla, University of Córdoba (Spain)
- Dr. Teresa Cunha, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Dr. Patricia Gomes Godinho, CODESRIA (Senegal)
- Dr. Mercedes Jabardo, University Miguel Hernandez (Spain)
- Dr. Almudena Marí Sáez IRD, Université de Montpellier (France)
- Dr. Samuel Mhadija, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Dr. Amalia Morales Villena, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Titus Mpemba, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Dr. Rosemary Mwaipopo, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Dr. Ezra Nhampoca, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique)
- Prof Carlos Oya, SOAS, University of London (UK)
- Dr. Katrien Pype, University of Leuven (Bélgium)
- Dr. François Seck Fall, Université de Toulouse (France)
- Dr. Rosa Maria Soriano Miras, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Ignacio Tamayo Torres, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Sibongile P. Tshabalala, University of Zululand (Sudáfrica)
- Dr. M. Soledad Vieitez Cerdeño, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Ewa Strzelecka, Vrije Universiteit (Holanda)
Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Ana Maria Bojica Bojica, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Estefania Belen Cano, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dña. Estefanía Calcines Pérez, Casa África (Spain)
- Dña. Xenia Domínguez Font, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Patricia García Espin, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dña. Gemma Maria Gonzalez Garcia, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Jorge Guardiola, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dña. María Nazaret Ibáñez Rueda, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Maria Luisa Jimenez Rodrigo, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Agnes Kamya, University of Makerere (Uganda)
- Dr. Isabel Marín Sánchez, University of Granada AFRICAInES, (Spain)
- Dr. M. Valle Medina Rodríguez, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Susana Moreno, University of Seville (Spain)
- Dr. Albert Roca,University of Lleida, CEA Barcelona (Spain)
- Dña. Josefa Sánchez Contreras, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Vanessa Sánchez Maldonado Farmamundi (Spain)
- Dr. Ane Sesma Gracia, University of Granada, AFRICAInES (Spain)
- Dr. Rita Aleksandra Sobczyk, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dña. Akloté Sokoum, University of Granada (Spain)
Symposiums:
- Economies, digitalisation and empowerment (Coordinators: Agnes Kamya and Ane Sesma)
- Inclusion and social and gender digital divide (Coordinators: Ezra Namphoca and Estefanía Cano)
- Digitalisation, cooperation and post-development (Coordinators: Xènia Domínguez and Carlos Bajo)
- Mobile money and digital financial strategies (Coordinator: François Seck Fall)
- Business and trade in a digital key (Coordinators: Estelia Mwanbene and Gemma M. González)
- Sustainable and equitable digitalisation and activisms (Coordinators: Patricia García Espín and Josefa Sánchez Contreras)
- Making a living on the move: bottom-up practices of digital entrepreneurship from African migrants and refugees (Coordinator: Griet Steel)
- Exploring Digital Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa (Coordinator: Davide Casciano)
- Knowledge dissemination and digital entrepreneurship (Coordinators: Estefanía Calcines Pérez and German Santana)
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